HRPNC Checksum Encoding for Stable Offline Data Transfer

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Solution Overview

Problem

Computing systems face challenges in securely transferring data due to air-gapped configurations and unstable network connections in remote environments, leading to vulnerabilities and data corruption.

Innovation Solution

Implementing enforced checksums for human readable prime number compression (HRPNC) to modify binary objects, ensuring checksums meet conditions, and encoding the modified objects for transmission, allowing for secure and stable data transfer.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If data is transferred to air-gapped systems through temporary network connections or physical storage media, then data can be transferred to isolated systems, but security is compromised and vulnerabilities are introduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata transfer capabilityVSAvoidsecurity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary checksum calculation and validation actions before data transfer to air-gapped systems. The checksum is computed in advance and embedded with the data, allowing the isolated system to verify integrity without requiring network connections or external validation mechanisms, thus maintaining security while enabling transfer capability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If long binary strings are manually entered in air-gapped environments, then data can be input without network connections, but user error and data entry mistakes increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveoffline data input capabilityVSAvoiddata entry accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides feedback mechanisms through checksum validation that gives users immediate confirmation of data integrity. When data is entered, the embedded checksum allows the system to verify correctness and provide feedback to the user, reducing manual entry errors while maintaining offline capability. The checksum acts as a self-verifying mechanism that guides users through the data entry process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If large data is transferred over slow and unstable network connections in remote environments, then data can be transmitted to remote locations, but transfer failures and data corruption increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveremote data transfer capabilityVSAvoiddata transfer stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary checksum calculation and data compression before transmission to remote environments. By preparing the data in advance with integrity verification mechanisms, the system can detect and prevent corruption during transfer, reducing failures while maintaining remote transfer capability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The checksum provides feedback about data integrity during and after transmission. If corruption occurs during transfer, the checksum validation can detect it and alert the user, enabling recovery or retransmission efforts, thus improving reliability of remote data transfer

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

4Loss of time

If data compression is applied to reduce transfer size in remote environments, then transfer time and data usage are reduced, but complexity of data processing increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata transfer timeVSAvoiddata processing complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs data compression and checksum calculation as preliminary actions before transmission. By preparing the compressed data with embedded checksums in advance, the system reduces transfer time and data usage while the complexity is concentrated in the preparation phase rather than during transmission or reception

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12561202B2Enforced checksums for human readable prime number compression (HRPNC)

Publication Date: 2026.02.24 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

AI summary

A method for compressing binary data into a human-readable format is provided. The method includes calculating a digital checksum for a binary object using a predetermined checksum algorithm, modifying the binary object in response to the checksum failing to satisfy a predetermined checksum condition, and performing human-readable prime number compression HRPNC) on the modified binary object using a specific table that associates prime numbers with words. The method also includes encoding the value used to modify the binary object with the compressed modified binary object. This approach reduce instability of data transfers to computing systems in locations that subject the computing systems to slow and unstable data transfers.